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Hello Sylvia – many thanks for your reply. I have looked in the Bengal lists of Civil Servants and not found him but I will check again in case I missed him or in case it was not the right year. I don’t know how long he had worked for the HEIC. I did not think to check the lists of European Inhabitants.
I’ll let you know if I find anything.
StephIs anyone able to advise me please?
How would I look up the HEIC records for someone in the Police Force? Would this be the Civil Service or is he likely to have been in the HEIC army? According to his Will/Administration he was “a British Subject and Overseer in the Fire Department of the Police Office in Calcutta.” He was 43 when he died in 1827.
OK then, here goes.
FitzSimon, Henry, b1800, Cadet in HEIC 1820-21, Retired (1855) Lt Col 29th N.I., married Mary O ‘Brien 1843 Calcutta
FitzSimon, Margareta Agnes b1846 Calcutta
FitzSimon, Henry Eustace FitzSimon b1848 Kyra
FitzSimon, Mary Ann b1855, Jullunder
FitzSimon, Mary Assumpta, b1858 DublinO ‘Brien, Edmond c1783 – d1827, Firefighter in Police in Calcutta
Mary ? m. Edmond date and place unknown but poss England or Ireland
O ‘Brien, Ellen b1817 m 1843 Calcutta to Joseph Burke, HM 50th Foot
O ‘Brien, Mary Ann b1821 m Henry FitzSimon (above) 1843Williams, John (d1842) m 1835 in London to Anne Amelia Hildreth (b1814)
William John Williams, b1841
Williams, Isabella, b1842? m Rev Townsend?McLaughlin, John b1786? (Ireland or India) HM 17th Lancers, then HM 16th Lancers
McLaughlin, George, b1812? Joined HM 16th Lancers as a “ Boy†married Anne Amelia Williams (nee Hildreth) 1843 Meerut (who was previously married to John Williams of HM 44th Foot died c1842.)
McLaughlin, George Stevens, b1844
McLaughlin, Rosa b1846
McLaughlin, Reginald Heber, b1848
McLaughlin, Frederick James, b1850, Indian Civil Service, Bangalore, retired 1892 to England with his wife and all his children.Hello Beverley
I have been looking for service records. I know that the service records of those who died in service were thrown away and service records of soldiers who were discharged early do not necessarily survive.
I have been looking at British Army Service Records.
For example, I know that George McLaughlin joined H.M. 16th Lancers as a boy in 1828. He paid for a discharge from the 16th Lancers in 1846. I have found this through the Musters. Although I have found service records of other people who were discharged, I have not found his record.
I have been looking for Timothy Callag(h)an in the 41st regiment, possibly born in 1818 in Ireland and probably discharged around 1841, but the only Callag(h)an I can find in the 41st regiment is a Thomas born in 1800. There are several other Timothy’s who were in different regiments.
If you have any ideas of how to find more information I would be grateful.
My 2 x great grandfather George McLaughlin was in HM 16th Lancers. He joined in India as a boy in 1827. When the regiment left India to go back to England, he paid £20 to be discharged from the army. He then became a Post Master.
He must have left that after several years and started a business, as when he died, the inventory in his Administration gave details of the business.
A book I read some years’ ago said that those leaving the army and staying in India were encouraged to join the Telegraph/postal department.
I have looked at the army Musters and found detailed records of his service month by month but cannot find an actual service record for him. I expect they threw it out when he was discharged. Most of the information, apart from the Administration, comes from baptism records of his children and his marriage record and those of his children. I have used FIBIS and FindMyPast, which has many of the India Office Records.
I have not been able to find out where he was born. It could have been India but the family thought it might have been Ireland. There was another McLaughlin also in the regiment who died in 1833 aged 53 who could have been his father. Due to the fact that Musters have to be searched at Kew, I have not been able to go back far enough to find out where he enlisted.
